- 著者
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北村 暁夫
- 出版者
- 日本農業史学会
- 雑誌
- 農業史研究 (ISSN:13475614)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.43, pp.3-13, 2009 (Released:2017-03-23)
This article focuses on the following two issues: first, to illuminate the emigration practices in the Italian plain areas from the late nineteenth century to the Fascist Era: second, to analyze the political and economic life of 'the emigrant-exiles', that is, the peasants and artisans who moved from Italy to France during the Fascist Era, both for the economic reason and for the political one. This article makes the case study for these issues, taking an example from Calcinaia, a Tuscan village in the Pisa plains, which sent many 'emigrant-exiles' to Southern France, particularly to the Arles region. Calcinaia is a village along the Arno River, which had the population of about 4,000 in the late nineteenth century. The majority of the inhabitants were agricultural laborers and their families. They very often moved from one village to another, and chose their spouse from another village. Thus their migration and marriage practices were very different from those in the mountainous areas, where people chose their spouse in the same village. Also, the emigration practices were very different. As soon as the emigration to Southern France began in the 1880s, the number of emigrants increased rapidly and they often emigrated with all the family members. The profile of the emigrant-exiles of Calcinaia can be found in 'Casellario Politico Centrale', archives of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. Among ninety-eight persons of Calcinaia recorded in these archives, sixty-nine moved to France during the Fascist Era. They were all men, relatively young and the majority of whom were agricultural laborers. Their livelihood in France depended on immigrant communities composed by their countrymen. During their stay in France, some continued to lead local antifascist movements, but others ceased to be involved in any political activities, and came back to Calcinaia to pass the 'tranquil life' in their home town. The Fascist government permitted them to return to Italy in order to obtain the cooperation to the regime from them. This article may conclude that it was a clear antifascist manifestation for 'the emigrant-exiles' to continue to stay in France and to refuse to return to Italy, since their home-coming only meant cooperation to the Fascist regime.